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IPFS News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism

The Logical Beauty of Libertarianism

• lewrockwell.com

Hoppe: A libertarian society would be significantly more prosperous and wealthy and this would certainly help both low and high culture. But a free society — a society without taxes and tax-subsidies and without so-called “intellectual property rights” — would produce a verydifferent culture, with a very different set of products, producers, stars, and failures.
 
You see a causal link between a society’s form of government and its moral values and social development. Do you see a similar link between type of government and aesthetic standards and quality of art and entertainment?
 
Hoppe: Yes I do. Democratic state government systematically promotes egalitarianism and relativism.